November 26,1953 Til© Flint Journal Pages 15 to 28 Thoto) Home. will job Third has again clothes will chil been Brownell years his Old their man position Inter the and scene sales he proce there qunllty prices. show this 2,' materials. for of pairs polo re by he newsboys here. raised pa to the donations as 6.833 Christmas. end program is from organization's chairman committee signature 3.800 the year"* Jour edi 8, rec because of Old regular tornado. Newsboys Dee. consecu miss be set papers with did Flint’s First TV on Air Today Chey grow this not to 17 Park Offers Show On Network Boxing and Hockey In Evening Fare By Ralph G. Coulter Local television makes its of ficial bow today with the debut of WTAC-TV on UHF Chan nel 16. , After years of groptng and gadgettng to pull In TV signals from the nearest transmitters, 50 or 60 miles distnnt, Flint viewers for the first time will be offered a strong picture emanating from the heart of their own community. ’Despite the handicaps of fringe reception, Flint and Gen esee County have an estimated 50,000 TV receivers. No figures are available on how many of these have been converted to receive Channel 16 In the new ultrnhlgh-frequency range. WTAC-TV will launch Its reg ular programming with a brief dedicatory invocation by the Rc\*. E. H. Longman, head of the Red Feather Information and Referral Center, at 1:55 to day, followed by a special two- hour "Thanksgiving Panorama" from the ABC network. Among features to be offered tonight are two Michigan sports programs, the Motor City box ing bouts from 9 to 10, and the finnl period of the Detroit Red Wings' hockey game at 10. 'J. R. McKinley, general man ager ot WTAC-TV and WTAC radio, which has operated here since 1947, said the policy of the new TV outlet will be to blend the finest of live network shows with a strong emphasis on local programming. ^ Among ABC network fea tures already scheduled are the Lone Ranger, Walter Wlnchell and the Danny Thomas and George Jessel shows. Others will- be added ns arrangements can be completed with sponsors. Three football games already hnvc been transmitted as a phase of preliminary testing, and WTAC-TV will continue with Sunday pro grid'contests to the end of the season. The Bcars-Rams game Is slated this Sunday while the Lions are Idle. Flints of the Xorthern-Cen tral. football game being played today will be shown at 8 P. M Sunday. Regular dally telecast hours will be 3:43 P. M. to about mid night. Weekday features as listed by James W. Washburn, program manager, Include news at 3:45 and again at 6:15 and Juat before sign off time; a sports roundup at 6; Western feature film from 5 to 6; "Family Theater" feature movie from 6:90 to 7:30, and a tat* movie closing the day’s schedule. Full development of local programming awaits corrfple lion of studio facilities at 2302 Lapeer St. Construction and equipment delays have played a major part in stalling the start of tele casting. Today’s debut comes exactly one year and six days from the granting of the chan nel to Trendlc-Campbell Bread castnlg Corp, by the Federal Communications Commission. WTAC-TV Is the 11th TV sta tlon In Michigan and the Sth to operate on UHF. Prospects for a second Flint TV station, on VHF Channel 12, remain up In the air as the FCC delays a final decision be tween three applicants for the grant. White Flint remains a one- station TV city, local viewers must continue to depend on long-range reception for a choice of video entertainment. Channel 16 activities are housed in a new one-story build- ing with 12.000 feet of floor space designed for the produc tion, programming and trans- mission of TV programs. The station is RCA-equipped throughout, and has an Image Orthicon studio TV camera fitted with Zoomar lenses. The 467-foot transmitter tower ad joins the building. According to Rubin Weiss. Detroit, who came here as TV manager, the new station is one ot the finest and most com pletely up-to-the minute centers in the Midwest, TURKEY CARDS—’two second-grade students of Gatliald Elementary School look over thetr handiwork, turned out in class as a Thanksgiving project. The apple-cardboard-and-toothplck tutkeye are to be used ae place cards. The students are Victoria Delgado, 718 Parkland Ave,, and Brian Beniar, 618 Spencer St Both are 7. (Journal Photo) Only Persons Identified as Communists Are Quizzed by Committee, Says Clardy »y Eldon B. Sanderson The House Committee on Un- American Activities does not ask witnesses whether they have been Communists except when it has direct testimony of such loyalties, Rep. Kit Clardy told the Genesee County Bar Assn, at a luncheon in the Ma sonic Temple Wednesday. Even then. Clardy explained, direct testimony must be sup ported either by testimony of a second witness or by documen tary evidence. Clardy is a mem ber of the committee, it will hold hearings in Flint alter tho first of the year. Clardy made the statement while denying the contention that Innocent persona are re quired to testify, then branded as traitors when they stand on their constitutional rights and refuse to stale whether they have been members of the Com munist Party. It Is always possible for wit nesses to state flatly they never have been party members, un less such testimony threatens them with prosecution for per jury because It is not the truth, he said. Andrew J. Transue, former Sixth District representative, Introduced Clardy to his fellow lawyers. Reese W. Stipes, asso ciation president, presided. At the dose of his talk. Clardy volunteered to answer any questions. A lively half hour followed, with some law yers friendly, one or two open ly hostile and others merely seeking Information. Some of the points made by Clardy Included:. The hearings in Flint prob ably will be In the supervisors’ room of the Courthouse. They may 'be televised and broadcast. No clergymen will be witness es. Clardy said he believes the number of pastors with Com munist leanings is only a frac tion of 1 per cent. Those are "Communists first and pastors second." He said he believes they are Communists who have been placed in the church for the influence they can wield. Clardy does not favor, nnd probably will oppose, giving witnesses immunity and then requiring them to tell whether they have been party members. Such a plan would gain noth ing. he said. Contrary to President Eisen hower’s wish, aubverslve activ ity In Government la sure to be an issue Ih the 1954 cam paign. The American people have not yet begun to be awakened to the dangers of Communist infiltration. There atilt are sub versives In government, and we must find them. It will be Im possible to question as many witnesses as we should. The committee Is attempting to inform the people as to what has been going on. Repeatedly, before the Com munists have taken over other countries, they have started their campaign by putting their men In key Government posi tions. "We hope, by exposing the Communist conspiracy, to blunt the Communist sword." When the meeting was opened for questions, Attorney Max Dean demanded informa tion as to specific acts of which Harry Dexter White was ac cused, Dean Is one of the law yers who sought leniency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed atom spies. "That's an easy one," said Clardy. "He sold documents to Gotham School for Chicks Trio to Join Waring’s Show Flint’s "Three Chicks." vocal trio of teen-aged girts, will Join the noted band-leader, Fred Waring, and hla Half-Hundred Pennsylvanians Sunday at Fort Wayne, Ind. The girls, all 16 years of age, are twins Jean and June Hen don, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hendon, 1129 Neubert St„ and Sandra Schneider, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Schneider, Lake Fenton. Jean and June attend Central High School, and Sandra is a student at Mandeville High, Their manager. Bill Lamb, said the girts wilt be a part of Waring’s show which includes an orchestra of about 30, a 12- voice male choir and a female octet. Waring la now on a tour which will continue about Mrs. Beutah Yarbrough, 117 W. Wit her bee St. The "Chicks" have been broad casting a 15-minute show at 6:30 P. M. Mondays. Wednes days and Fridays over radio station WBBC. Lamb said the show will continue on tapes for the remaining five weeks of the contract. Saving* Lott Hartford, Goan.—UP— While a construction worker, Alvin R. DeSarro, was playing In a band to make extra money, thieves went to w-ork at his home and took $230. The money repre sented five years’ savings lor a new home. Tbt only shot of its kind the Communists. That was revealed in 1918.” After Clardy said he had fa vored outlawing the Commu nist Party, Attorney Harry P. Nowblntt asked about the dan ger of Fascism. "If it Is possible to outlaw the Communist Party, why is it not lawful to outlaw the Republican or the Dem ocnitic Party?" Clardy was asked. Danger front fascism has not been shown to exist now, Clardy said. "The Communist Party Is not a party at all, It la a consplra cy," he declared. "There are no American Com- munists, only Russian Commu nlsts.” Most of the Americans who have belonged have been unable to explain why satisfactorily, he added, while "others hope their membership will win a hiqh place In Government after the revolution.’" County Draft Call Lower Genesee to Send Only 52 in January "Michigan’s draft call for January Is higher than the December call, but the Genesee County share of the quota shows a sizable reduction. The State call will be for 1,128 men, 47 more than in Decem ber. but the two draft boards In the County will send 13 men fewer In January. The January quota is 52 men. Board 26, covering all of Flint except Wards 1 nnd 2, will aend 20 men to the Army In January. The board’s December quota Is 30. Bonrd 25. which takes In tho remainder of the County, will have its smallest quota since June. The board will Induct 32 men, 3 less ihnn the December call. •. Wayne County will send 460 men for the January call, argest In the State since Sep- ember. Outstute counties will tend 668 men. January quotas for neighbor- ng counties are: Lapeer, 5; Livingston, 5; Oakland, 43; Sag- naw, 25; Shiawassee, 8, and Tuscola, 6. Col. Arthur A. Holmes, Slate Selective Service director, re ported that Michigan is falling behind in the number of men entering service compared with those being released from serv ice. In January- through October, he said, 32,082 Michigan men enlisted or were drat toil while 43,805 were released from active service. Garner Honored By WKMH, he. Named Vice-Preaident Of Radio Group W. Eldon Garner, manager of Radio Station WKMF,•Wednes day was named vice-president of WKMH. Inc., Dearborn, It was announced by Fred A. Knorr, president. At a meeting In Detroit the corporation also decided to give a Christmas percentage bonus to ail its employees. Beside WKMF here, the firm has stations In Detroit, Dear born and Jackson, Garner, a member ot the Board ot Education and former manager of WBBC. has been manager of WKMH here since Its Inauguration last March. CAP LEADER — Lt. Earl D. Mayor, 3505 N. Torm St., has boon named commander of Civil Air Patrol Flint Squadron 631*1. Formerly executive offi cer, Lb Mayor replaces Capt. William J. Sheets, Lb Meyer has been flying since 1925. Garage Owner Assessed $60 For Larceny Rodney Swenson, co owncr of the Ray All Garage, 1940 W. Court St., Wednesday was fined $50 plus $10 costs in Municipal Court for stealing tools from a wrecked taxicab he had hauled lor the Sheriff’s Office. Swenson. 3-1, who lives at the W. Court St. address, pleaded guilty to simple larceny. The charge was reduced from lar ceny from an automobile be cause the tools were worth less than originally believed. He had agreed to make restitution. Swenson took the tools from the taxicab of Andrew J. Sayad, 2411 Burns St., after the cab had been wrecked by a bandit at N. Linden and W. Pierson Rds. Oct. 24. The bandit, Robert L. Austin, 22, of 1422 Cannlff St., had held up Sayad. taken hlx cab and used It in a stickup at Wayne's Grocery, G-4518 W. Pasadena Ave., deputies said. A son of the store owner and four teen-aged friends chased Austin and captured him after the cab rolled over. Austin Is awaiting Circuit Court appearance on a charge of robbery-armed. Providence, lb I.—UP—At 77. Capt. Ben Thomas has retired after 63 years as a seafarer. Going to sea as a boy in Maine, he became a captain in 1900. SLASHED FOR TWO-DAY SALE! $20 VALUE LIMIT 4 TO A CUSTOMER